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Gormy Cuss

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2. I was thinking the same thing.

Reply to yardwork (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 11:12 AM

Jul 2012

Snow White IIRC is much older, pre-WWII. She has the look of the 1930s heroines of real life cinema. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella are also of an era when it would have been difficult to sell a film for girls where women weren't ultimately getting a prince to take care of them.

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Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist [View all] obamanut2012 Jul 2012 OP

It's not surprising that the least feminist character is in a film made in the 1950s yardwork Jul 2012 #1

I was thinking the same thing. Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #2

Snow White was released in 1937, Disney's first feature length film. yardwork Jul 2012 #3

The article comments are more interesting than the article btw obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #4